as-built

English

Adjective

as-built (not comparable)

1. Relating to the form in which something was originally built.
   • 2020 December 2, Richard Clinnick, “Fleet News: Anniversary run for pioneer '37' thwarted by pandemic”, in Rail, page 31:

     It was restored to near as-built condition by EWS ahead of the RAIL/EWS Toton Open Day in August 1998, and was withdrawn from traffic in December 1999, passing to the National Collection.

Noun

as-built (plural as-builts)

1. (construction) A drawing showing how a project was actually built as opposed to how it was intended to be built.
   • 2013, Virginia A. Greiman, Megaproject Management‎, →ISBN:

     Maintaining as-builts on the Big Dig was a major undertaking, as it required keeping thousands of utility drawings up to date with the latest changes.

Alternative forms

• as built

References

• “as-built”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• bliauts